” Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria”
- two novels by William Trevor. ” Evocative & haunting. Trevor writes like
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In this volume, Tony Pollard & Neil Oliver visit the sites of six major British battles, from Shrewsbury to Culloden, & carry out a full archaeological investigation at each. As they uncover artefacts abandoned in the heat & chaos of battle they closely follow the progress of each engagement & answer key historical questions, sometimes totally revising the accepted version of events. Each chapter is a fully framed investigation & follows an episode of the BBC television series. By using archaeology to unlock the secrets of the past, Tony & Neil prove that soldiers do not pass through fields of conflict like shadows, & in the process they show that battlefields are some of our most important national monuments. ...

Two middle-aged ladies, one Penelope Chetworth, the other her 12-year old mare La Marquesa, explored the high sierra north of Granada in 1961. Together the travellers brought out the best in their Spanish hosts & Chetwode`s compelling account
- warm, witty & candid
- is informed by her infectious personal fascination for horses, religion & Spain.

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Two Moors Way, a 150km / 93 mile long-distance trail between Lynmouth on the north coast of Devon & Ivybridge near Plymouth, crossing Exmoor & Dartmoor National Parks, presented at 1:40, 000 on a light, waterproof & tear-resistant map from Harvey Map Services. The route is shown on six panels. Maps in the Harvey’s series covering Great Britain’s national trails & other long-distance footpaths are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper & cover the routes at 1:40, 000 or 1:60, 000. Topography is shown by contours at 15m intervals, with additional spot heights plus colouring and/or graphics to provide a very detailed picture of the terrain (boulder fields, scree, crags, etc) & vegetation / land use (pastures, moorl&, woodlands, etc). In Scotland peaks & hills classified as Munros, Corbetts & Donalds are marked. The overprint for the long-distance trail shows sections on local or main roads (highlighting danger points), on tracks, & on footpaths, indicating intermittent or not visible paths. The maps also show other right of way paths, including permissive paths & bridleways. Symbols indicate various facilities & accommodation options (including campsites & youth hostels), pubs & refreshments, food shops, banks, information points, etc, both along the route itself & in the nearby locations. All maps are GPS compatible, with the British National Grid overprinted on each panel. The maps also include useful contact details & general advice. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

This guidebook describes the 187km (116 mile) Devon Coast-to-Coast Path, or Two Moors Way. The trek travels south to north, from Wembury on the south coast, up through Dartmoor & mid-Devon, through Exmoor to Lynmouth on the Bristol Channel. The trek can be adjusted to suit each walker, & can take between a week to 10 days depending on itinerary. While thousands of visitors flock to Devon every year, few leave the honeypots & coast, so walkers on the Two Moors Way are treated to beautiful & remote countryside, far from the crowds. The route winds north from the coast, up past Ivybridge into the wilds of Dartmoor, where the path crosses the upper course of the River Dart, & passes through Dunstone Down & Chagford. The way through mid-Devon visits Witheridge & Knowstone before climbing onto Exmoor & into Somerset, before reaching the sea. This guidebook combines clear route descriptions & OS map extracts with plentiful practical details on each stage of the route as well as advice on accommodation, facilities, & how to travel to & from the Way. Also included is a wealth of detail on the history, geology & wildlife along the way, as well as noting points of interest to enhance your trek. ...

One morning in October 2013, nineteen-year-old Ayan Juma & her sixteen-year-old sister Leila left their family home in Oslo. Later that day they sent an email to their parents. ` Peace, God`s mercy & blessings upon you, Mum & Dad.. . Please do not be cross with us...` Leila & Ayan had decided to travel to Syria, `and help out down there as best we can`. They had been planning for months. By the time their desperate father Sadiq tracks them to Turkey, they have already crossed the border. But Sadiq is determined to find them. What follows is the gripping, heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart. While Sadiq risks his own life to bring his daughters back, at home his wife Sara begins to question their life in Norway. How could her children have been radicalised without her knowledge? How can she protect her two younger sons from the same fate? Asne Seierstad
- with the complete support of the Juma family
- followed the story from the beginning, through its many dramatic twists & turns. It`s a tale that crosses from Sadiq & Sara`s original home in Somalia, to their council estate in Oslo, to Turkey & to Syria
- where two teenage sisters must face the shocking consequences of their decision.


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” One can either do this or do that.. . do it or not do it
- you will regret both.” Soren Kierkegaard A bench looking out onto
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Susie Kelly & her husband Terry had long dreamed of owning a home in France, but ironically it wasn`t until they were facing homeless penury in England that they realized their dream. With five dogs, two parrots & their elderly horses, they moved to an old farmhouse in the Poitou-Charentes region with dirt floors, no water & a primitive electricity supply. While Terry was back in England trying to support them all, Susie Kelly contended with a homicidal gas cooker at the bottom of the garden, burst pipes, a guinea fowl that turned somersaults & bit people on the shin & a constant stream of people turning up at her door with needs of their own. Sometimes the enormity of renovating a house with insufficient funds & little help seemed overwhelming. She saw her husband infrequently. Their English neighbour was imprisoned on drug-smuggling charges. & when Terry developed a condition that brought him close to death, the dream threatened to turn into a nightmare. There were times when Susie & Terry seemed to be taking two steps backward, but the kindness of the local community & the tranquillity of the landscape inspired them to make a new life for themselves & their animals in the place they now called home. ...

A smart & funny story from the author of The Rosie Project
- two misfits walk 2, 000 km along the Camino to find themselves &,
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